By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with “eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value o...
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one ...
The demands of acceptance require us to maintain a relationship of honor and respect with those with whom we may ardently disagree. We accept the fact that our convictions on this matter differ, and those with whom we differ hold their convictions, a...
If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.
